Multiple key presses with one button press

[EagleOnyx]

I’m planning on trying this software out to make a panel for the F16 in DCS. I’m wanting to do an Eject button as a single button press rather than needing to press it 3 times. Also I would like to do momentary toggle switches in place of latching toggle switches. DCS BIOS fork doesn’t allow show that option for the Arm Off Simulate switch and similar. Can cockpitOS do these things? I tried to do both on a regular Arduino today and found out that I couldn’t. thanks

[EagleOnyx]

I was able to do these functions now with regular Arduino nano and DCS BIOS by asking AI for custom code. it took a few tries to get one that worked but they do work. I still would like to try this with your CockpitOS software though. for three way switches I would like to use Mom switches where pressing up steps the switch through the positions and holds them there instead of going back to OFF, and then flipping the switch the other way will step back the other way. this is so I don't have to worry about resetting the switches between flights

[BojoteX]

can you explain what you mean by not having to "worry about resetting the switches between flights"? cockpitOS reads your current switch positions, so, whatever you set in the hardware will be replicated in DCS

[EagleOnyx]

It turns out this is hard to explain. Resetting the switch in this case means turning it to 'OFF' position. I want to turn systems on with momentary toggle switches and not worry about turning them back off before I can turn them back on again in the next mission. this is the code I have to do it with regular DCS BIOS: I press the switch up and it stays up in the game but does nothing when it returns to center and vice versa for down position.

const byte MASTER_ARM_UP_PIN = 10;
const byte MASTER_ARM_DOWN_PIN = 11;

--- Master Arm (3-Position Steps: MASTER ARM / OFF / SIMULATE) ---
DcsBios::ActionButton masterArmInc("MASTER_ARM_SW", "INC", MASTER_ARM_UP_PIN);
DcsBios::ActionButton masterArmDec("MASTER_ARM_SW", "DEC", MASTER_ARM_DOWN_PIN);

With a standard toggle switch it stays up unless I go back to center or down and I often forget to do that before starting the next mission.

[BojoteX]

It turns out this is hard to explain. Resetting the switch in this case means turning it to 'OFF' position. I want to turn systems on with

Seems to me you are trying to make the switch behave like a selector/encoder, each position (direction) stepping/cyclying either up or down. If I were to do this in CockpitOS I'll probably create a custom control (its documeted in the advanced section) and to be honest with you, those are features that require very specific, weird and unconventional behavior. I did that for my own use and testing. Not intended for the general public.

Have you checked the advanced section of the CockpitOS documentation? tried using AI to interpret it for you? search for custom.json in the docs so you can see how can you check the behavior of a switch into a momentary or selector